II. THE SWALLOW. 



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you this sketch of my favourite Holbein, and 

 tell you tliat it is entirely disgraceful he 

 should not know what a wing was, better, — 

 I don't mean that it is disgraceful he should 

 not know the anatomy of it, but that he 



Fig. 10. 



should never have looked at it to see how 

 the feathers lie. 



Now Holbein paints men gloriously, but 

 never looks at birds ; Gibbons, the woodcutter, 

 carves birds, but can't men ; — of the two faults 



